When I began this blog (I am now 91) I thought that I might live for six months but today it feels like only one month.  My heart is malfunctioning.  I think it was Kazantzakis, the author of Zorba the Greek, who wrote that when one is on a precipice he should send back to his fellows what he sees.   Consequently, I am hurrying to tell you what I see.

I have a lifetime of devotion to science; I was a working chemist.  After raising my children I avidly pursued reading in the sciences.  I wrote, “I regarded paranormal messages between the spirits of the dead and living people as so much hogwash,” in my book published in 2006, SEX IN THE EIGHTIES: For people who are not afraid of their sexuality and contemplate a radiant approach to their aging and death.

I am forced to acknowledge, against my will, that when something occurs, well beyond chance, there is an important message for us.  Now-a-days the discoveries of modern quantum physics cannot be ignored.  These discoveries point toward the existence of unknown forces at work in our world.

I now admit that there can be communication between the living and the dead, if something occurs well beyond chance, as it did to me.  I am very well aware of C. G. Jung’s essay:  Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, because I have had several such occurrences in my adult life.  In any case I believe that in Nature everything is connected and nothing is wasted including our culture.

See page 135 in The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S Ramachandran for rapid propagation of culture … innovations would only be valuable if they spread rapidly. In this respect, we could say mirror neurons served the same role in early hominin evolution as the Internet, Wikipedia, and blogging do today.  Once the cascade was set in motion, there was no turning back from the path to humanity.